People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.

the better angels of our nature

Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

When it does not exist, design it.

So I’ve seen my boys do that a hundred times with the neighboring pixy girls. Give her their favorite seed and be too flustered to tell her what it was.

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.